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No.
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Author(s)
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Title
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JEL Class.
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3072
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Pedro
Carneiro
Costas
Meghir
Matthias
Parey
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Maternal Education, Home Environments and the Development of Children and Adolescents
We study the intergenerational effects of maternal education on children's cognitive achievement, behavioral problems, grade repetition and obesity. We address endogeneity of maternal schooling by ...
(revised version published in: Journal of European Economic Association, 2013, 11 (S1), 123–160)
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J31
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3071
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Katrin
Assenmacher-Wesche
M. Hashem
Pesaran
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Assessing Forecast Uncertainties in a VECX Model for Switzerland: An Exercise in Forecast Combination across Models and Observation Windows
We investigate the effect of forecast uncertainty in a cointegrating vector error correction model for Switzerland. Forecast uncertainty is evaluated in three different dimensions. First, we ...
(published in: National Institute Economic Review, 2008, 203 (1), 91–108)
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C53, C32
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3070
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Anzelika
Zaiceva
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Children, Kitchen, Church: Does Ethnicity Matter?
Gender role attitudes are well-known determinants of female labor supply. This paper examines the strength of those attitudes using time diaries on childcare, food management and religious activities ...
(substantially revised version published in: Review of Economics of the Household, 2014, 12 (1): 83-103. [Open Access])
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J22, J15, J16
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3069
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Konstantinos
Tatsiramos
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The Effect of Job Displacement on the Transitions to Employment and Early Retirement for Older Workers in Four European Countries
Despite the increased frequency of job loss for older workers in Europe, little is known on its effect on the work-retirement decision. Employing individual data from the European Community Household ...
(revised version published as "Job displacement and the transitions to re-employment and early retirement for non-employed older workers" in: European Economic Review, 2010, 54 (4), 517-535)
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J14, J26, J63, J64
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3067
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Christina
Gathmann
Uta
Schönberg
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How General Is Human Capital? A Task-Based Approach
This paper studies how portable skill accumulated in the labor market are. Using rich data on tasks performed in occupations, we propose the concept of task-specific human capital to measure the ...
(published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2010, 28 (1), 1 - 49)
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J24, J31
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3066
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Marika
Karanassou
Hector
Sala
Pablo
F.
Salvador
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Capital Accumulation and Unemployment: New Insights on the Nordic Experience
This paper takes a fresh look at the analysis of labour market dynamics and argues that capital accumulation plays a fundamental role in shaping unemployment movements. This role has generally been ...
(published in: Cambridge Journal of Economics, 2008, 32 (6), 977-1001)
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E22, E24, J21
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3065
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John
T.
Addison
Clive
R.
Belfield
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The Determinants of Performance Appraisal Systems: A Note (Do Brown and Heywood’s Results for Australia Hold Up for Britain?)
This paper offers a replication for Britain of Brown and Heywood’s analysis of the determinants of performance appraisal in Australia. Although there are some important limiting differences between ...
(published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2008, 46 (3), 521 - 531)
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J5, L23, M5
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3064
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Randolph
Sloof
Mirjam
C.
van Praag
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Performance Measurement, Expectancy and Agency Theory: An Experimental Study
Theoretical analyses of (optimal) performance measures are typically performed within the realm of the linear agency model. This model implies that, for a given compensation scheme, the agent’s ...
(published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2008, 67 (3-4), 794 - 809)
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C91, J33
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3063
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Amelie
F.
Constant
Klaus
F.
Zimmermann
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Measuring Ethnic Identity and Its Impact on Economic Behavior
The paper advocates for a new measure of the ethnic identity of migrants, models its determinants and explores its explanatory power for various types of their economic performance. The ethnosizer, a ...
(published in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2008, 6 (2-3), 424-433)
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F22, J15, J16, Z10
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3062
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Laurens
Cherchye
Bram
De Rock
Frederic
Vermeulen
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The Revealed Preference Approach to Collective Consumption Behavior: Testing, Recovery and Welfare Analysis
We extend the nonparametric ‘revealed preference’ methodology for analyzing collective consumption behavior (with consumption externalities and public consumption), to render it useful for empirical ...
(published as 'The revealed preference approach to collective consumption behavior: testing and sharing rule recovery' in: Review of Economic Studies, 2011, 78 (1), 175 - 198)
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D11, D12, D13, C14
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12990Result(s) returned for "All accepted Discussion Papers"
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